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Anton Canovski: Here today, gone tomorrow

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12/21/2017 07:30:30 PM MST

Will the CU students who voted for the muni be here to pick up the tab when it comes due? Will they be here to deal with the consequences of their vote?

You only have to reside in Boulder for 22 days before an election to meet the residency requirements to vote. So anyone with a frat house address who meets this requirement can vote — and be gone tomorrow.

What is the justification for this 22-days-only residency requirement? How can anyone here for only 22 days, particularly a CU student preoccupied with school, have a full understanding of all sides to any issue? Thomas Jefferson said that a successful democracy depends on a well-informed electorate. Pumped with pizza and propaganda, the CU students who voted for the muni hardly qualify as a well-informed electorate. Boulder, we allowed ourselves to be "rolled" by New Era, euphemistically speaking!

Castine, Maine, a bucolic town on Penobscot Bay, might just have the answer Boulder needs. Castine has a large group of "summer only" homeowners and is home to the Maine Maritime Academy. Neither the "summer only" homeowners nor the cadets at the academy are eligible to vote in local elections. All voices are welcome to debate but only full-time residents, who have a full-time stake in the community, are eligible to vote. Boulder needs to think seriously about a voter residency requirement that will protect us against another New Era "Tammany Hall" style voting scam.

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